Gioia Diliberto on “Ghost Writer”

Gioia Diliberto on “Ghost Writer”

One thing I hope is that they get a visceral sense of the ephemerality of literary fashion, that today's masterpiece is tomorrow's junk. Pearl's writing and celebrity were a function of a very particular and vanished time, when lots of people believed in Spiritualism, when it was enjoying a resurgence after World War I in the wake of so much tragic loss.

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